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Jim Freeman & Terry Turchie - Unabomber

Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 7:00pm

This is the story of how the FBI broke its own rules to catch the notorious Unabomber who had randomly killed and maimed people while leaving a cold trail of terrorism for sixteen years. When a new team of hand-picked investigators devised a different strategy to crack the genetic code that protected the Unabomber’s anonymity, the first task was to begin blasting away the layers of bureaucratic constraints that had plagued the earlier efforts to retrace the trail of crimes. As the rules broke and the bureaucratic restraints crumbled, the puzzle pieces of earlier bombings that the terrorist left behind were found and the puzzle collapsed around the Unabomber like a deck of cards. Unabomber ($27.95) is the story, told in the narrative by the three FBI Agents who led the chase, of how they broke the Bureau’s own rules and finally captured the notorious Unabomber who had led the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the longest chase in its century-old history.

Jim Freeman who was designated by then FBI Director Louis Freeh to be the SAC, the Special Agent in Charge of the national pursuit; Terry Turchie a counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence expert who directed the task force; and Max Noel the Special Agent in the street who succeeded in placing Mr. Kaczynski under arrest. The three collaborated to bring the definitive work on the man long considered to be the most notorious lone wolf terrorist in American history.